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...requested by specific Congressmen, so there's no way to prioritize between national emergencies (such as stronger levees to prevent a Katrina-style catastrophe in Sacramento) and preposterous pork (such as a notorious $459 million flood-control scheme for Dallas, a study of a $3 billion dam on the Susitna River that Representative Don Young wants in Alaska, or the seven water and sewage treatment projects that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid tucked into the bill for Nevada.) The Senate considered an amendment that would have required prioritization of Corps projects according to national need, but it was overwhelmingly rejected...
...years ago, I was flying over the Susitna River near Talkeetna, Alaska, looking down on miles of wilderness, with only one road winding through the verdant landscape. It occurred to me that in all its empty, raw beauty, wilderness is the ultimate luxury. Jumping from Alaska's uninhabited wilds to the overcivilized luxury-goods business may seem like a stretch, but these days even denizens of the latter are talking about sustainability and how they can become more environmentally conscious. This special supplement to TIME is dedicated to the idea of green living in all aspects of design, including architecture...
FEMININE MYSTIQUE As part of the 26th Annual Moose Dropping Festival July 11-12 in Talkeetna, Alaska, 15 women will compete in the Mountain Mother Contest, in which they must cross the Susitna River on stepping-stones while carrying two bags of groceries and a baby doll, then chop wood, change diapers and make a whipped-cream pie. Unofficial record time: under 5 min. Losers can always try their luck at the Moose Nugget Toss...
...winter there were only 13 Fifty-Niners left on the Susitna, and what a winter they had. On Christmas Eve, Steve Pankiewicz's mare Ruby, a Percheron draft horse, fell 20 ft. into a well. All night long the men worked to dig the horse out of the frozen gravel, and by 4 a.m. they were finished. They earned Shorty's grudging admiration. "Those people did something nobody ever did before in this country," he allowed. "They got a horse in a well and got it out alive." Later that winter Bertha Donaldson fell...
When the Fifty-Niners arrived, there were only seven or eight people on the west side of the Susitna. Today the Siks figure there are about 1,500, stretched over a wide area, and there is a town, or rather a cluster of highway businesses, a post office, a police station, a school and four churches, known as Trapper Creek. "We thought of calling it Bradleyville," says Carol. "We thought of Little Michigan. But that idea was dropped right away. After all, this is Alaska, not Michigan. But most of us lived on Trapper Creek, so that...